Ezekiel Hersey
Province of Massachusetts
Ezekiel Hersey was a physician in Colonial Massachusetts and the original benefactor of Harvard Medical School. - AsNotedIn
Ezekiel Hersey was a physician in Colonial Massachusetts and the original benefactor of Harvard Medical School. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1709/09/21 | Mary Hawke Hersey, wife of James Hersey, gives birth to a son, Ezekiel Hersey, in Hingham, Province of Massachusetts Bay. | Born | Hingham, MA | Massachusetts | |||
| 1728/06/28 | Ezekiel Hersey graduates from Harvard College in Cambridge, Province of Massachusetts Bay. Dr Hersey will practice medicine in Hingham, Massachusetts. | Education | Old Harvard Yard | Cambridge, MA | |||
| 1770/11/29 | Ezekiel Hersey writes his will, gifting Harvard College 1,000 pounds sterling, with "the interest thereof to be by them appropriated toward the support of a professor of anatomy and physic" should such studies be undertaken at Harvard. | Benefactor | History of Harvard Medical School | ||||
| 1770/11/29 | Ezekiel Hersey writes his will, gifting Harvard College 1,000 pounds sterling, with "the interest thereof to be by them appropriated toward the support of a professor of anatomy and physic" should such studies be undertaken at Harvard. | Benefactor | History of American Medicine | ||||
| 1770/12/09 | Ezekiel Hersey dies at age 61 in Hingham, Province of Massachusetts Bay. | Died | |||||
| 1791/00/00 | The chair of the Theory and Practice of Physic is endowed as the Hersey Professorship by the wills of Ezekiel Hersey, Sarah Derby, his widow, and Abner Hersey, his younger brother. | Benefactor | History of Harvard Medical School |
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